Two differing views on overdevelopment:
Pro: How Sprawl Got a Bad Name
Con: Battling Teardowns, Saving Neighborhoods
Notice how the Pro guy uses bias as a reason a la John Liu.
skip to main |
skip to sidebar
The Crap-O-Sphere ("Crappy")
Artwork by Jerry Rotondi
The official mascot of Queens Crap
The Crap-O-Sphere ("Crappy")
"Let us dare to read, think, speak and write." - John Adams, 1765
Spotted a piece of Queens Crap in your community?
Write to us at QueensCrapper@gmail.com
Please note
Italicized passages and many of the photos come from other websites. The links to these websites are provided within the posts.
Why your neighborhood is full of Queens Crap
"The difference between dishonest and honest graft: for dishonest graft one worked solely for one's own interests, while for honest graft one pursued the interests of one's party, one's state, and one's personal interests all together." - George Washington Plunkitt
Willets Point United Against Eminent Domain Abuse
Artwork by Jerry Rotondi
Become a fan of Queens Crap on Facebook.
Sites that kick ass:
The above organizations are recognized by Queens Crap as being beneficial to the city as a whole, by fighting to preserve the history and character of our neighborhoods. They are not connected to this website and the opinions presented here do not necessarily represent the positions of these organizations.
The comments left by posters to this site do not necessarily represent the views of the blogger or webmaster.
Street or satellite shots used here are from Google Maps or Windows Live Local.
The comments left by posters to this site do not necessarily represent the views of the blogger or webmaster.
Street or satellite shots used here are from Google Maps or Windows Live Local.
Blog Archive
-
▼
2007
(2365)
-
▼
January
(177)
- Queen Angers Her Subjects
- Coney Island Developer's Threat
- Another Construction Death
- 2nd Avenue Subway: maybe, maybe not
- Lots O'Landmarks
- Coming Soon: Another House Too Narrow
- Curbed on the Crapper
- Brooklyn Matters
- Quinn Hearing Tonight
- A Dirty Rat
- More $$$$ for Ratner
- Update on 88th Road Homes
- District Disparity
- LIC Renaissance Man
- What's going on at the NY Times?
- Bloomberg: Ending Self-Certification is a Bad Idea
- The Big Squeeze
- Demolition Review Legislation
- More on the forced gentrification of LIC
- Catering Crap
- Rundown Republican Club
- Pfizer leaving, but still giving back
- Nassau could give NYC a lesson in preservation
- And speaking of forced gentrification...
- "LIC? What a Dump!"
- Which is Worse?
- Cuomo Cuffs Contractors
- A Case of Crap
- Queens? Where is that?
- City Coffers Overflowing
- Laments in the Ledger
- A picture worth a thousand words
- Tour of the Ridgewood Reservoir
- Dominick Now Domiciled!
- Builders seek weaker immigration laws
- Inside Tierney's World
- How to Save Street Trees
- NYPD & DOB: Working Together
- When Less is More
- The Councilman doth protest too much, methinks!
- Southeastern Queens Fights Overdevelopment
- Brownstoner Buzz
- Press Conference/Rally on Sunday
- Risky Water View
- FNY in LIC
- Crappy Condo
- The Latest on Sunnyside
- Foreign Money Fueling Overdevelopment
- Yes, they start and end their trips here!
- State of the Borough, part 2
- Coincidence or Connection?
- Losing more than houses
- The Wrath of Crappy
- Update on Stop Work Order Property
- All Decked Out
- Quinn Took Fraud Money
- They're Down on Bowne
- The big 421-A lie
- A Man Who Talks Sense
- Houses of the Rising Sun
- Power Perks
- Food for Thought
- The Money Train
- That playground again
- Squeezing Richmond Hill
- Carvel Crap
- BOOKMARK THIS!
- Hipster Satire
- Hasta La Vista, El Barrio
- Flatiron Fiasco
- Sunday 3-for-1 Special
- Huanging Out
- An Excellent Question!
- More on Sunnyside
- Fabian Flophouse
- Someone who does have a million dollars...
- If I Had a Million Dollars...
- Building Queens Green
- News from Brooklyn
- "Lure for business investment" or urban nightmare?
- Another Stairway to Heaven
- Pinky Protests Park Proposal
- Felonious Reporting
- Overcrowded Schools
- Queens Chronicle on Sunnyside Gardens
- State of the Borough
- Hackett Building's Demise
- The New Coney
- It's Official: Helen Marshall is a Moron
- Cloud buster
- Con Ed Still Being Blamed
- Spitzer Takes Back Pataki's "Gift"
- New York: Not Number 2 Anymore?
- More Fun With Public Disclosures
- Bloomie's Billion Dollar Tax Cut
- Builder not giving up on glass tower plan
- Crap-o-rama
- A Real Weiner
- Landmarks Gives Tower The Thumbs Down
- Port Chester Case Rejected
-
▼
January
(177)
Send submissions to:
queenscrapper@gmail.com
Include address of property and any other information you have about it.
All contributors will remain anonymous.
Include address of property and any other information you have about it.
All contributors will remain anonymous.
6 comments:
We live an era of increasing fuel consumption and greedy appetites for increased square footage in the average American home. We'd all better consider eradicating the middle class because we're all going to have to become very wealthy overnight if we really think we can afford to maintain these energy eating Behemoths! Overdevelopment has gone way over the top and has got to be reigned in!
Naw, after a generation or so, those gigantic buildings will be cut up into rooming houses.
Remember the 1930s?
It has happened in the past, and it will happen in the future.
Quote
First and most important, communities must realize that they aren't helpless in the face of teardowns. They have choices: They can simply take the kind of community they get, or they can go to work to get the kind of community they want. They have to decide what they like about the community and don't want to lose. They must develop a vision for the future of their community, including where and how to accommodate growth and change. Then they must put in place mechanisms to ensure that their vision is not compromised.
UnQuote
Where in the hell does this person live? Not in the real world. We have no choice as to what is happening around us. The chips area stacked against us.
But worse, we can do nothing about this as long as do not have leadership in preservation. For anyone to write this drivel tells me that they never fought in the barricades nor understand the process.
The old leadership is tired and totally unequal to the task. Oh, but they are good at one thing, and that is keeping us peasants down.
I really dislike the term "development". It assumes that your going to "improve" upon what's there and in most cases it doesn't. Let me illustrate the point: There's a beautiful Redwood forest out there with trees that are hundreds of years old. Magnificent! What "improvement" do you think anyone could make upon this? Save the word "development" for developing good ideas or, maybe, "developing" a new vaccine to eradicate a dread disease. And let's call "developers" what they really are (in most cases) "destroyers" and what they do "destruction"!
I think that a bus tour of featuring all of those Malba Mc Mansions, that the wanna-be "Goom-bahs" have built, ought to convince everyyone how ugly a (formerly beautiful) neighborhood can become when it is overdeveloped to the max! (Oh, and don't bother to call me anti-Italian for I 'm Italian American myself)!
There is no more actual land that has not been developed. We are turning from Earth into a large ball of pavement!!
Post a Comment